Bard of the Middle Ages
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
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Michael Drout
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Chaucer's works are today widely studied and serve as models for current literature around the world. Chaucer holds a place of esteem as the earliest and one of the foremost writers in the English language.
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- Me
- 06-11-24
Brings the Anglo-Saxons brilliantly to life
Michael Drout is a wonderful lecturer, and a great authority on his subject. Interestingly he mentions the superb (and very long!) book on Alfred the Great by Professor Alf Smyth who had fascinating if controversial theories on Alfred and worked here in Canterbury.
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- 21-11-16
Insightful, informative and entertaining.
A sweep through the life, times and works of Geoffrey Chaucer, setting his works in context and exploring some of the complex themes at work. What sets this series apart is that all of Chaucer's are discussed no only in relation to Chaucer but in relation to each other. A very useful guide, and a very engaging presenter.
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- Jim
- 09-07-14
In Drout we Trust
Michael Drout uses a literary critique of Geoffrey Chaucer's works as an excuse to talk about medieval life while also addressing the question of why Chaucer is rated so highly and what influences shaped his talent. As well as being a significant author, Chaucer had a dazzling rise under a sequence of Kings at a time of great turmoil in English history when it was difficult enough to make the transition from wine merchants' some to courtier and even harder to avoid assassination and torture as various factions rose and fell. Drout goes some way to explaining how Chaucer did it. He also brings the text to life by reading passages of Chaucer in middle English and contrasting them with passages of old English and modern version of the Canterbury Tales. I've always found it strangely fascinating to hear the unfamiliar tones of our own language as they were spoken by long dead ancestors.
Don't worry if you like history but aren't interested in literary criticism. Drout's incapable of being dull and effortlessly links the literature back to the experience of living a medieval life. Don't worry if you like history but feel this period to be pretty solidly covered in other publications. Drout has interesting things to say about the cultural life of the middle ages as well as the intricacies of Chaucer's progress through the hierarchy of the royal bureaucracy.
I've yet to listen to a dud from Prof Drout and this is another characteristically strong offering.
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